Postpartum Therapy in Forney, TX and Bloomington, IL

Everyone Is Asking About The Baby

Has anyone asked how you are doing? Not the baby. You.

Do you love your child completely and still feel like you have lost something you cannot name?

Are you doing everything right and still lying awake at night convinced you are failing?

Maybe you expected to feel joy and what came instead was fog, or fear, or a flatness that scared you. Maybe you feel rage that seems to come from nowhere. Maybe you look at your baby and feel love and grief at the same time, and you have not said that out loud to anyone.

Maybe you are further out than people think you should be, and nobody warned you that this could last past the fourth trimester.

You are not ungrateful. You are not a bad mother. You are a person going through one of the largest transitions a human being can go through, mostly without support.

What This Can Look Like

Maternal mental health struggles do not always look like sadness. They can show up as:

  • Anxiety that circles around your baby’s safety and will not let go

  • Intrusive thoughts that frighten you and that you have not told anyone about

  • Rage or irritability that feels disproportionate and shameful

  • Feeling disconnected from your baby, your partner, or yourself

  • Guilt about not enjoying a season you were told would be the best of your life

  • Difficulty sleeping even when the baby is sleeping

  • Grief for the person you were before, alongside love for who you are now

  • Feeling invisible while everyone else focuses on the baby

This can begin during pregnancy, right after birth, or a year or more later. It can follow a fertility journey, a loss, a difficult birth, or a birth that went exactly as planned.

Have questions about postpartum and maternal mental health therapy?

Black Mothers Are Carrying Something Extra

Maternal mental health conditions are among the most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth. That alone should tell you how far from alone you are.

But Black mothers are navigating this inside a system that has not historically listened to us. You may have had your pain questioned in a delivery room. You may have been discharged without anyone asking how you were doing emotionally. You may have grown up around the expectation that Black women handle it, that we do not get to fall apart, that motherhood is supposed to be a role you step into without needing help.

That expectation is not care. It is pressure. And it keeps a lot of women silent about exactly the thing they most need to say out loud.

You are allowed to need support. Needing it does not say anything about your love for your child.

How Therapy Can Help

This is a space where you can say the parts you have not said. The intrusive thought. The resentment. The moment you did not feel what you were supposed to feel. None of it will be met with alarm or judgment.

Together we work on understanding what is happening in your body and mind, separating what is a symptom from what is a personality flaw, and rebuilding your relationship to yourself alongside your relationship to your child.

We will also make room for grief. Becoming a mother means something ended, even when what began is good. That gets almost no acknowledgment anywhere, and it matters.

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What You Can Expect In Our Sessions

We start with what your days actually look like. Sleep, support, what is happening in your body, what is happening in your relationship, who is helping and who is not.

From there, we work on:

  • Naming what you are experiencing without shame attached to it

  • Practical strategies for the anxiety, the intrusive thoughts, and the nights

  • Boundaries with family, partners, and everyone with an opinion about how you should be doing this

  • Reconnecting with the parts of yourself that did not disappear, they just got buried

Over time, clients tell me they stop white-knuckling the day. They enjoy their child more. They stop measuring themselves against a version of motherhood that was never real.

How I Work

I draw on psychodynamic therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, narrative work, and Black feminist therapy. I am also a mother. That does not make me an expert on your experience, but it does mean you will not have to explain certain things from the beginning.

Sessions are virtual across Texas and Illinois, which matters when leaving the house is its own project.

You May Still Have Questions.

  • No. Maternal mental health struggles can begin or persist well past the first year, and later does not mean lesser.

  • Intrusive thoughts are common and distressing, and having them does not mean you would act on them. Being able to say them out loud in a safe place usually reduces their power.

  • Yes. Sessions are virtual and I do not need you to have childcare arranged in order to show up.

  • Most people do not when they start. That is what the first few sessions are for.

  • No. Reaching for support is one of the clearest signs that you are taking your child’s wellbeing and your own seriously.

Work With Us

You Deserve To Be Cared For Too

Postpartum therapy is a place where somebody asks how you are doing and actually waits for the answer.

I offer a free 15 minute consultation. We will talk about what is going on and whether working together makes sense. No pressure and no commitment.

Postpartum Therapy Forney, Tx

6096 Determine Lane

Forney, Tx 75126

Postpartum Therapy Bloomington, IL

2103 E Washington Street

Ste 3E

Bloomington, IL 61701